CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, ITALY – Mikaela Shiffrin won her first Olympic gold medal in eight years on Sunday, but above all else for the 30-year-old American, it felt like the first since her father’s death six years ago — the culmination of a long journey to reach a place where the moment was just about ski racing once again.
“Everything in life ?that you do after you lose someone you love is like a new experience,” she said after claiming the ?slalom title ?on the Olimpia delle Tofane piste to put her experience at the Beijing Games in 2022 behind her.
“It’s like ?being born again. I still have so many moments where I resist this. I don’t want to be in life without my dad.”
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